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6 thoughts on “Inside The Roland AIRA VT-3 Vocal Transformer”

He sure covered every base with a fine-toothed comb. He really nailed it when he ran the AX-1 through it. We all know what vocoders, pitch-shifters and formant modifiers do, but it really started to shine as a macro effects box. He did a great job of stepping through several of its behaviors and showing off its musicality with demonstrative licks. With a bit of trimming, this should be Roland’s demo for the VT.

Haha oh, actually inside. Wasn’t really expecting that. Always good fun to take a peek inside kit, but I’m not sure what he went looking for there. All these modern digital instruments are going to look largely the same, just a lot of basic stuff feeding into a monolithic DSP chip and the clunky bits to deal with us meatsacks. For the real stuff, you’ve gotta strip down the package and break out the AFM! 🙂